James Prochaska, John Norcross, and Carlo DiClemente developed the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change. This model of behavior change consists of five stages, which are precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. With this model, an individual gradually moves throughout the stages when engaged in a new behavior. For my handout, my target audience is individuals who are in the contemplation stage. A person in this stage is aware of their problem behavior and is ambivalent about changing. In my handout, I displayed both the benefits of getting enough sleep and the effects of sleep deprivation. In doing this, I have shown the audience the pros and cons of getting enough sleep in hopes of moving them to the preparation
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My behavior change project was attempting to have a more regular sleep schedule. This project was challenging to me because I typically have a hard time falling asleep and waking up, and I usually procrastinate leading to many late nights. I think the biggest challenge that this change presents is slipping up and staying up late or sleeping or napping can mess up your whole cycle of sleeping and take an even longer amount of time to correct. In the beginning keeping track of my sleep felt good because I knew that I was getting enough sleep and it gave me an excuse to stop studying and go to bed. Ultimately though, making a conscious effort to track my sleep and get more sleep was more stressful than jut letting sleep happen naturally.
Sherry Turkle’s article in The New York Times “The Flight From Conversation”, she disputes that we need to put down the technology and rehabilitate our ability to converse with other human beings because we are replacing deep relationships with actual people for casual encounters on technology. Turkle tries to convince young and middle age individuals who are so enthralled by the technology that they are losing the ability to communicate in a public setting. Sherry Turkle unsuccessfully persuades her audience to put down the technology and engage with others in public through her strong logos appeal that overpowers her weak logos and doesn’t reliably represent herself and her research.
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In the Advocates in Action article on Building Your Advocacy Capacity, Richard J. Meyer made some really great points on what to expect when it comes to forming an advocacy. This article was based on how an advocacy works and how to build an advocacy from the bottom. The authors states what is important when planning an advocacy. Richard Meyer said “it is important to be organized, intentional, strategic, and flexible”. The main purpose of this article was for the readers to understand what it takes to be a part of an advocacy. The article was about taking action and activism when it comes to the public education that the students are receiving when it comes to the curriculum and high-stakes testing. The main point of this article was to inform
Bernard Roths' book, The Achievement Habit, talks about how reasons are bullshit in the second chapter. He talks about how people use excuses to hide the fact that people aren't willing to give something in our life a high priority. Roth uses an example of a student getting a flat tire. Even though it probably did happen, getting to class wasn't a high priority in her life. She could have left earlier and then even if she did get a flat she might have got to class on time. Roth says that reasons are a polite way to have an excuse. "Excuses" is more of a negative way of saying something.
In “The Wrong Way to Get People to Do the Right Thing”, Alfie Kohn uses rhetorical appeals to support the claim that appealing to self-interest is detrimental towards getting people to help others.
The third theory we have learned in class is called the Transtheoretical model. This theory describes “The Stages of Change” in seven steps. However, an individual may follow these stages but it is possible that they can slip up spiral back down to the bottom and have to start all over again. The first stage is precomtemplation, which is you have no plans on changing your behavior. I relate to this because I was in this stage during the weeks leading up to when the health behavior change project was assigned. The second stage is contemplation, which is you start to think about the fact that you want to change your behavior. I relate to this because this is when the project was assigned and this is when I started thinking that I wanted to change
There are many bad habits these days and the most serious one for me is stay up late all the time and not energetic enough in the morning. This behavior is called sleep procrastination. Just as the words from the researchers at Utrecht University, “pre-bed procrastination is the latest diagnosable strain of mismanaged time, stopping us from shutting off when we should and causing us to fritter away valuable snoozing opportunities on unnecessary tasks.” Indeed, such tiny behavior has already spread out the entire campus and wastes energy and time. Therefore, trying to correct this behavior by using psychological ways, I decided to use operant conditioning, the process of associating
I knew a girl who had an eating disorder who liked to walk. When she decided to talk, she asked people to walk with her. I was the only one who would I call it, “walk talk therapy” (I asked her to walk slower, on purpose – changing her pattern of behaviour. She wanted to talk, therefore she altered the behaviour – showing interest in change).
Behaviour is also a very common practice in therapy. The ideas are that learnt behaviour can also be unlearnt is a big one, as well as introducing good habits and improving health through new habits and behaviour. A client wishes to remove a undesirable behaviour, then the client and the therapist work towards unlearning that behaviour.
“One of the problems for human beings is mental habits. Once we create a comfort zone, we rarely step outside of that comfort zone. The consequence of that
Describe any changes you would make to this practice to keep you motivated, or to enhance the effects? Cognitive Restructuring Reframing:
Motivation, to start with is the forward motion to behaviour (Burton, Westen & Kowalski, 2015). “Over 1.2 million Australians experience sleep disorder” (Burton et al, 2015), sleep deprivation is the deliberate prevention of sleep (APA college dictionary of psychology, 2009). Symptoms include “insomnia, inability to deal with stress and ill health” (Burton et al.). The consequence unmotivated behaviour is the inability to start the sleep process (Burton et al.). Sleep allows the body to restore, however despite this basic human need sleep deprivation exists. The Psychodynamic perspective is the relationship between conscious and unconscious intention (Burton et al.). The Behaviourists perspective implies humans are motivated to repeat behaviours that encourage and to avoid those that punish (Burton et al.). The Cognitive perspective suggests that people have motivated behaviour that value the outcome and believe they can